Anyone who does a graphic novel about his father’s secrets and history has a long shadow to contend with. The closer that father was to WWII, the clearer the parallels. If the father was Jewish…even more so.
Now, a creator doesn’t have to engage with that at all: it’s probably best if they don’t, actually. But it’ll be there in the back of every reader’s head, just like any story with a whale will evoke Moby Dick and a guy wandering around Dublin Ulysses.
Michael Kupperman’s father Joel was a child prodigy, nationally famous at the age of five for appearing on the radio show Quiz Kids. He was shoved into it by a domineering mother, and basically lost his childhood to performing as a child genius. And, once he got out, he tried to ignore it for the rest of his life,...
Now, a creator doesn’t have to engage with that at all: it’s probably best if they don’t, actually. But it’ll be there in the back of every reader’s head, just like any story with a whale will evoke Moby Dick and a guy wandering around Dublin Ulysses.
Michael Kupperman’s father Joel was a child prodigy, nationally famous at the age of five for appearing on the radio show Quiz Kids. He was shoved into it by a domineering mother, and basically lost his childhood to performing as a child genius. And, once he got out, he tried to ignore it for the rest of his life,...
- 10/21/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
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